Veggie burgers can be tasty
But they need to be enhanced for the best flavor, texture
Let’s admit the truth: A plant-based burger can never be as good as one made from beef.
Of course, everyone’s palate is different, but I’ve yet to find a truly tasty burger made without meat. However, if you dress up a vegetarian burger, it can become a much healthier and far less expensive part of your diet.
The best one I’ve tried so far is dr. Praeger’s California Veggie Burgers, but I didn’t eat them on a roll or bun because I generally find such “meat” to already be too dry without bread.
I recently added a chopped-up veggie burger to Indian-style flatbread and added organic spinach, leaf lettuce and feta cheese. I warmed the burger in the toaster oven and heated the bread.
Each 2.5-ounce veggie burger is just 130 calories with 5 grams of dietary fiber, which is 18 percent of the nutritional daily value needed for most diets. Each provides 5 grams of protein, or 8 percent of a typical diet and only 3 percent of saturated fat.
